A/N: Hey, well this is the first story I've ever actually finished. Review please :)
"Up!" I heard a voice demand as I woke up. I shook my hair out of my eyes, my friend Bella started thumping me with a pillow.
"I'm up! Shut up!" I said. "What you doing? It's the middle of the night!"
"Middle of the night? It's morning! We're going to be late for class!" Bella said, giving me another thump with the pillow.
I sighed and got out of bed, I looked out the window, it was snowing. I slowly got dressed, yawning after every minute.
We ran to the Great Hall to quickly bolt down some breakfast. As we ran in the whole place was silent. A Howler was going off at the Gryffindor table, I couldn't see who it was to but I was pretty sure is was a Weasley. Bella found hilarious, I found a bit funny too. I never knew they were that loud before.
"What do we have first, Demi?" Bella asked, after we had finished.
"I don't know, History of Magic I think."
Bella Groaned. Everyone found it so boring, I didn't dislike it. It gave me a chance to daydream.
We got to class just in time. We sat at the table across from Harmony. Harmony is Gryffindor and Bella and I are in Slytherin. She was the first person I spoke to on the Hogwarts Express, she has straight, dark redish hair, brown eyes, glasses and is really friendly and smart, one of the smartest in our year I think.
Bella is friendly but she can be a bit scary at times, I think if I wasn't in Slytherin too we wouldn't get on. She has pretty, curly brunette hair and sea blue eyes, I met her after I was sorted into Slytherin, I sat next to her at the Slytherin table.
I remember waiting for my name to be called out while watching my stupid brother showing off in front of his friends at the Slytherin table, I jumped when Professor McGonagall finally called my name "Malfoy, Demi!"
I sat on the hard, wooden stool. The whole room was annoyingly silent, McGonagall dropped the hat on over my eyes, does the hat really need to be that big? I think my brother's big coconut head stretched it a bit to much when he put it on last year. I waited for ages for the hat to decide.
"Very difficult," A voice said in my ear. "Very, very difficult. Brave, plenty of courage. Kind hearted, now that's interesting. Daring, oh my goodness, yes…Hmm, where shall I put you?"
I thought with my eyes tightly shut, "Not Gryffindor, not Gryffindor."
"Not Gryffindor? I can see that if where you truly want to be," said the hat. I carried on praying not to be in Gryffindor while the hat went "Hmm…Err…Mmm…" inside my ear. "Well if your positive then it will have to be SLYTHERIN!"
I took the hat off and half walked half ran to the Slytherin table. I hardly noticed the clapping because the hat just about deafened both my ears bellowing "Slytherin". I sat on the nearest seat I could get which was next to Bella. "The hat took ages to decide for you" She said.
"Yeah…" I mumbled. I knew Draco was probably looking at me, I knew that the hat shoved him in Slytherin straight the way. I bet he'll want to know why it took so long for me.
"My names Isabella by the way, but just called me Bella." She smile.
I looked out of the class window, I could see Draco and his other classmates in the distance, looked like they were having a flying lesson. You can tell me and him are related straight the way. We're both pale and our face shape is pointed but mines a bit rounder and we have the same blonde hair which I hate. Mines wavy and shoulder length though. I think just about the only difference is our eyes, mine for bright green and his are…well, just grey and dull.
After second lesson it was break. Harmony, Bella and I went down to the lake, there are a few trees and bushes there and Gnomes run around them. We go there because nobody else ever does.
"So how was Transfiguration?" Harmony asked, she jumped onto a rock to avoid a Gnome that ran right at her. It hit the rock head first and fell.
"Same old thing, I hate it. It's to hard," Bella replied, kicking at another Gnome.
"Leave it alone!" I said, picking it up. I always thought the Gnomes were cute, I don't know why everyone hates them so much. Mother walks round the garden at home, wand at ready to blast any Gnome that might be lurking in the garden. I tried to keep one as a pet, in my room, when I was little but it got out and ran round the manor until either Draco or Mother or Father got rid of it.
"I don't know why you like those things, there like Rodents," Harmony said.
I held onto the Gnome until I felt something sharp go through my finger. "OW!" I shrieked, dropping the Gnome. "It bit me!"
"They don't like being picked up you know," Bella laughed, she grabbed it by the feet. She fished a witch hat sticker out of her pocket and stuck it on the back of the Gnome's back. She laughed at it trying to reach around and claw it off.
"We better get moving now. Third lesson is Defence Against the Dark Arts and Gilderoy Lockhart is the new teacher!" Harmony squealed. "Come on I don't want to be late!"
"I'm glad he's the new teacher." Bella said.
"What? Why?" I asked.
"The Defence Against The Dark Art job is jinxed. Nobody lasts long apparently."
In the class I realised I couldn't stand Lockhart. Almost all my books for this year are by Lockhart. I tried to read his Magical Me book before and fell asleep. It was so boring! Mother isn't really a fan of him either. I think she's the only woman who isn't.
Through the whole class I wasn't really paying and attention to him. I don't think Bella was either. Harmony was hanging onto his every word, so were a lot of the other girls too.
After that extremely dull lesson when went to the Great Hall for lunch and then into the school grounds. "So what do you want to do?" Bella asked. Just then one of our friends, Kyle, who is also a Slytherin came running up. "What you up to then?" Harmony asked.
"Me and the others are messing about with the Whomping Willow" He laughed. "Seeing how close to the trunk we can get."
"Leave the poor thing alone," I said.
"Poor thing! It's a tree!" Bella said. "Has it got bandages all over it?"
"Yeah. I heard Harry Potter and Ron Weasley crashed and flying car into it and got expelled," Kyle said.
"No there not expelled. I've seen them in the common room and around the school," Harmony said. "Ron Weasley's the one that got the Howler."
"Oh was that him?" Kyle laughed. "Well are you coming or not? Joey keeps getting hit in the mouth by it and Tom nearly had his nose took off."
We followed him to the Whomping Willow and got there just in time to see Tom run, kick the trunk and get knocked to the ground by a very angry branch.
"Nice one." Velma, another Slytherin laughed.
"Help then!" Tom demanded, rolling out of the way of the branch.
"Go on then, Harmony. Your turn." Kyle said, I guess he could see she was a bit uncomfortable surrounded by Slytherin students.
"Since it got hit by that car it's extra angry," Velma said.
"You've not even dared to go near it yet!" Joey said, keeping his eyes on a moving branch.
"I'll have a go." I said. I remembered the Sorting Hat saying I was daring and now was a good chance to prove it.
"Don't fall into that hole, whatever you do. I don't know where it leads." Tom said.
I ran to the tree trunk and a seen something thin and brown on the floor, a broken wand. I bent down to pick it up, like an idiot. I suddenly felt a something strike me on the back of the head. Then everything went black.